If you are having problems with your employer, you can make an official complaint by raising a grievance. By law, you have the right to submit a formal grievance, and your employer should have a formal grievance procedure. If you have not seen your employer’s grievance procedure, you should request to see it. If your […]

A new edition has just been released of Dare to be a Daniel, a short pamphlet that chronicles the rise of one of Britain’s earliest syndicalist unions. The pamphlet charts the rise of the French Cooks’ Syndicate, which sought to organise catering workers in the early part of the 20th century. The French Cooks’ Syndicate […]

  Since October 2024, under the Employment (Allocation of Tips) Act 2023, employers must pass 100 per cent of tips, including service charges and gratuities, to their staff. Employers are required to ensure that tips, gratuities, and service charges paid at their place of business are allocated fairly among all workers, including employees, agency workers, […]

In coordination with the Solidarity Federation Hospitality Workers Union we will be running a workplace organiser training on Sunday the 26th of July. The training will run from 11am to 6pm, and will be at the London Action Resource Centre (LARC), 62 Fieldgate Street, Whitechapel, London, E1 1ES. The training will include case studies of past workplace organisation […]

The Solidarity Federation has been organising pickets in support of workers’ sacked in Northern Ireland for raising health and safety concerns. The workers had appeared to have won a key victory against their employer  Obsidian-Echo Body Piercing after walking out over the refusal of their employer to provide vaccines against hepatitis despite being exposed to […]

In the first part of this article, we examined the laws concerning the legality of covertly recording meetings with employers. In this second part, we will explore some of the advantages of making a covert recording despite the associated risks. Although secretly recording a meeting with your employer may constitute misconduct, or even gross misconduct, […]

At Hospitality Worker, we believe that employment rights are a poor substitute for workers organising and challenging the power through collective action. However, in today’s climate, individual workers often have no option but to go down the legal route to resolve disputes with their employers. If this is the case, it is best to use […]

Organise! IWA workers in Belfast have won a key victory against their bosses at Obsidian-Echo Body Piercing. In the first action of its kind in the city, the workers forced their return to work in safer roles and no loss of pay alongside an admission from the owner, Pamela, that immediate disciplinary procedures following the […]

From Monday April 6th 2026 the laws relating to Statutory Sick Pay will change. You are now entitled to Statutory Sick Pay from the first full day of your illness, prior to this it was only paid after three days of being off work due to sickness. The lower earnings limit has also been removed […]

We will be holding an open meeting on the 29th of March in London for hospitality workers who want to organise a union in their workplace. We will talk about ways people can organise at work that can actually get results, whether the problem is dodgy contracts, missed breaks, pay, or a wanker boss. We […]